326 THE STORY OF PLANT LIFE 



Pink, Scaw Fell Pink, Quishion, Rock Rose, Sea 

 Turf, Thrift. 



The name is corrupted into Swift in Sussex, and 

 in Somerset it is called Cushions or Cushins or 

 Cooshings. In Devon it is called Pink, Sea Pink, 

 French Pink, Sea-gilliflower. 



Statice maritima. — In Fig. 72 the tufted rosette 

 habit is shown with the woody root-stock and the terminal 

 head of flowers borne on long scapes. 



Upright Sea Lavender {Limonium binervosnm). 



The name Limonium was applied to the Winter- 

 green, as well as Sea Lavender, and means " pertain- 

 ing to a meadow" or moist grassy place. The old 

 name Statice referred to its astringent properties, the 

 plant having been used to check dysentery. 



The colour of the flowers, like those of Lavender 

 (Lavandula) in tint, is the origin of the common 

 English name. There are several kinds of Sea 

 Lavender. 



This one is found on all the British Coasts, up to 

 Wigtown on the west, and Lincoln on the east. 



The habitat is rocky shores, dry rocky maritime 

 banks, or sandy shores. 



The habit is the rosette habit. The rootstock is 

 tufted, branched from near the middle, the branches 

 repeatedly forked, long, roughish. The leaves are 

 inversely ovate to lance-shaped, or spoon-shaped, 

 narrowed to the stalk, which is three-veined, shortly 



